The Israel-Iran conflict has shown that Central Asia’s bid for strategic autonomy is deeply fragile. In a world of unraveling ...

Max Sligh on “Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville.

They represent profits from trade: the silver may have originated as far away as Central Asia and have been earned from selling slaves into markets that were themselves connected to the Silk Road ...

In a bid to punish the European merchants they disliked, the Ottomans imposed fees and sanctions on traders using the famed Silk Road. The Portuguese duly responded by developing sea routes to Asia.

The viking presence in Europe is well known, extending east to Constantinople and the rivers of western Russia and Ukraine, alongside the settlement of the North Atlantic islands and ultimately a ...

Data gravity, the Silk Road's modern-day digital ghost, shapes cloud costs. Manage its pull or pay the tolls of vendor lock-in.

Reinvigorating The Silk Road Since antiquity, the most profitable overland trade route was through Central Asia to Europe. A major portion of the historic Asia-Europe trade routes on land ...

As we can imagine, the Byzantine upper class was particularly interested in Chinese silk. This was a luxury commodity that became synonymous to wealth and sophistication in Constantinople. Conversely, ...

Fresh off receiving a “full and unconditional pardon” from President Trump, sparing him from two life sentences, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was spotted in a new photograph smiling broadly ...

Ross Ulbricht is free, but unproven allegations against the Silk Road founder overshadow his well deserved pardon in some corners of the internet. Ross Ulbricht, sentenced to life in prison without ...

Over this Silk Road, then called the Imperial Highway, some 2,000 years ago camel caravans, loaded with silk, jade and lacquer, plodded their way to Samarkand, where the goods were shipped to ...

During the reign of Emperor Justinian I (527-565 AD) Constantinople had become a cosmopolitan city that served as a hub of commerce and culture along the Silk Road. It was Constantinople that ...